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Hot or Not? The Man Wall

$14,900 buys you, The Man Wall: room 4 television sets (one 52" in the center and two 26" displays are included) for all your sports watching needs, a 1200-watt wireless audio system from Panasonic, ...

Hot or Not? Altec Lansing Expressionist Bass

Altec Lansing Expressionist Bass ...

Hot or Not? Paul Desk

Reminds us of the desks from our college library. The Paul Desk offers removable storage, computer and accessories cords management, and a little bit of privacy. ...

Hot or Not? Nelson Motta's “Nottable” Laptop Stand

Nelson Motta's “Nottable” Laptop Stand ...

Hot or Not? Oversized Keyboard Chair

It may be the perfect gift for your accountant, who come tax time is practically sleeping with the numberpad on his keyboard. Designed by Simone Micheli, we think this chair is made to order. ...

Hot or Not? Fender Strat Coffee Table

Straight from the boys themselves at Fender Custom Furniture, this solid maple coffee table is a perfect replica of a famous Fender Stratocaster electric guitar headstock. In perfect proportion, your ...

Hot or Not? Tree Stump Outdoor Speaker

Colleen over at Apartment Therapy DC recently posted this Hot or Not about this tree stump shaped outdoor speaker. They're designed to provide high quality sound while blending into the landscape, p...

Hot or Not? The Nixie GPS Clock

We love these old-style Nixie clocks. Most of them are made to celebrate Steampunk and there is no shortage of them available right now. Having a great clock on your desk makes telling time a cinch. T...

Hot or Not? Glass for Computing

Glass desks have been around for ages (and you know we've covered the heck out of them), but for some reason we've never asked that million dollar question - are they really that hot when used as your...

Hot or Not? Louis Vuitton's Mobile Theater
You know Kanye's got one.

We're not the type to buy luxury goods from labels like Louis Vuitton, but we do like turning to them for inspiration. This custom-made trunk, made for a customer in China, features a portable DVD pl...

Hot or Not? Bua Gelaskins

We have long been fans of Justin Bua's graffiti inspired art. We have a few of his prints, including the original Piano Man. So as we continue to see laptop personalization and designer/ laptop collab...

Stickers On Your Laptop?

A lot of people try to customize their laptops in different ways. The reason is that they want to make their products unique. Sometimes this is well done and other times, it's a bit of an eyesore. The...

Hot or Not? Nahoko Koyama's Whippy Light

Personally, even if we weren't already fans of CFL bulbs (9 of the 10 bulbs in our house are CFLs), we'd be partial to use a CFL bulb for the soft serve effect with these waffle cone and ice cream con...

Hot or Not? Desk Lamp with Built-in iPod Dock

We've seen a few of the bright ideas from iHome's series, but these are the first to take advantage of the iPod mini and shuffle's colorful bodies. Like other iHome lamps, the iHL64 accent lamp fea...

Hot or Not? OfficePOD

Would you like working in an OfficePOD as a home office? ...

Hot or Not?: Computing Underneath The Stairs

Surely, someone's figured it out by now. One of the sweetest places to dedicate an office workspace is right underneath a bustling staircase, turning a would-be unused part of your home into a friendl...

Hot or Not? Media Rooms Showcasing... Media

While some of us prefer our media hidden in boxes, as seen in our guide to decluttering home theaters, others enjoy the pursuit of collecting and showcasing their goods within their media rooms. For t...

Hot or Not? Finger Condoms for All Your Touch Screen Needs
From the WTF files

We're not sure about you, but touch screens seem to like our fingers, so we're not in the market for a finger condom, but we suppose for people with mangled digits a Phone Finger might be necessary. ...

Hot or Not? Skinning Your Electronics

Like body tattoos dating back to Eurasian practices around the 5th millennium BC, people will always have the human urge to express themselves in such a mass consumer culture. Luckily, since gadgets t...

Hot or Not? Digital Photo Book

We love the idea of photo books. With pretty much all our pictures now consisting of digital files locked away in our computers, there is still something to be said about reaching over to the coffee ...

Hot or Not? Jonas Damon's Wooden Flashlight

Jonas Damon's Wooden Flashlight ...

Hot or Not? DIY Plywood Stereo Rack

What do you think about this $30 DIY stereo rack? Survey and link to instructions below the jump......

Hot or Not? Match-Friendly Light Bulbs

It's been hammered into us over the past few years that one of the ways we can curb power overuse and help the environment is to trade in incandescent bulbs for fluorescents, but isn't the truly eco-...

Hot or Not? Hand USB Thumb Drives

While we're not experts here at Unplggd, we have had some exposure to a various hand signs to know what C++ looks like when we see it. Or wait... is that Erlang? ...

Hot or Not? The See-Through B-IRON 725

B-IRON 725 by Dong-Seok Lee & Ji-Hyung Jung ...